Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historic Structures Report

1. Copies of all the documents are in the files at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS. The original of the Stuart drawing is at the Montana Historical Society. The Milwaukee Road offices in Deer Lodge retain the original linen map showing the 1907 ranch. The Leeson drawing is on page 556, and the work is dated 1885.

2. Powell County Transcribed Deed Book 1, p. 161, which contains the phrase "all of my farming implements Wagons yokes & chains . . . ."

3. Ibid.

4. Lithograph entitled "1883 Bird's Eye View of Deer Lodge City, County Seat of Deer Lodge Co., Montana" (Milwaukee, Wis.: J. J. Stoner), lithographed by Beck & Pauli, Milwaukee, Wis., 1883. Photographed in Deer Lodge City Hall, 1975. Copy on file at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS and at Montana Historical Society.

5. M. A. Leeson, History of Montana, illustration ca. 1884 entitled "Residence of Conrad Kohrs, Deer Lodge, Mont. Kohrs & Bielenberg, Breeders of Short-Horn & Hereford Cattle, Thoroughbred, Clydesdale, Percheron-Norman and Coach Horses."

A portion of a map prepared by the office of the Division Engineer, Northern Pacific Railroad, 25 February and 6 July 1907.

1. Interview, C. K. Warren with John Albright, 23 Feb. 1975, copy on file at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS.

2. Grant, "Extract from Memoirs," Montana Historical Society.

3. The Montana Post, 16 Dec. 1865. The article from this Virginia City newspaper is reproduced as Appendix 1.

4. Deed Book E, Deer Lodge Co., p. 342. (This is the original citation in the deed book now at Anaconda in Deer Lodge County. The Powell County transcribed Deed Book citation is Book 1, p. 161.)

5. Described in more detail in Chapter II of the Historic Resource Study.

6. Furnishings remain to be studied, but will he considered in an appendix and will be discussed in some detail in the Architectural Data section to follow.

7. A word on names is in order. John Francis Grant is also referred to as "Johnnie Grant" and as "Johnny Grant." Likewise, John N. W. (Nicholas Wilhelm) Bielenberg appears as John Bielenberg, as "Johnnie Bielenberg, and as "Johnny Bielenberg". Conrad Kohrs is more often than not "Con Kohrs," and even appears in The New Northwest as "Con Kohrs, Esq." from time to time. Both the more formal and less formal names appear in contemporary documents regularly. Readers are free to take their pick.

8. Kohrs, "Autobiography," p. 144.

9. The water supply and drainage systems consist of an unknown number of pipes, entry boxes, and diversions at the park and will have to be the subject of intensive future study. This need is discussed in the "Recommendations" section of the combined report. However, one of the water systems is discussed as an example of the complexity and function of the various others, and as it happens, it is the system that carried off the water from the hydraulic ram tank in the attic. Its description is presented later on in this section of the study. The hydraulic ram pipes still exist, neatly stacked in Historic Structure 12.

10. General furnishings data is briefly considered in a later portion of this report. The Architectural Data section contains a collections statement and discussion of the furnishings in somewhat greater detail. A thorough furnishings study is in order, however, and this need is discussed in the "Recommendations" section. Uses of the many rooms in this structure are only lightly touched upon in this portion of the study since the subject is addressed in the Architectural Data section.

11. Warren Interview, May 1975, p. 48.

1. Interview, John Albright and Grant-Kohrs Staff with Conrad K. Warren, 2 May 1975.

2. Gehrmann letter, 19 Nov. 1974, handdrawn map. More detailed descriptions of room uses included in Architectural Data section.

3. Interview, Conrad K. Warren with Peter Snell, 11 Sept. 1975, p. 3.

4. Gehrmann letter, 19 Nov. 1974.

5. The bulk of the data on construction dates and uses of the buildings at the ranch has come from conversations between Conrad K. Warren and researchers and park staff, using building lists and maps. More specific details are covered in interviews on file at the park. These will be cited when the structures are discussed in detail in the Architectural Data section.

6. Interview, C. K. Warren, 11 May 1975. See also Bearss, "Resource Description " 2 Nov. 1971, p. 13.

1. Warren Interview, 14 May 1975, p. 21. See Map 3.

2. Ibid., pp. 21-22.

3. Ibid. J. H. Gehrmann also mentions growing wheat at the home ranch during World War I, although he is not as specific as Warren. Letter, 19 Nov. 1974.

4. This portion of the chapter was compiled from interviews with C. K. Warren, 3 May and 30 June 1975, conducted by the Grant-Kohrs staff and John Albright.

5. This material was provided in various conversations between C. K. Warren and Richard Peterson, Grant-Kohrs Park Historian Paul Gordon, and John Albright at various times between 5 Apr. 1975 and 30 June 1975.

6. Interview, Conrad K. Warren with Peter Snell, 11 Sept. 1975, and interview, Warren with Park Historian Paul Gordon, 14 Oct. 1975.

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